Naresh Sunkara

Naresh Sunkara

Scientist turned entrepreneur dedicated to preventing Healthcare Associated infections.

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nareshksunkara
Emeryville, California, United States
Member since October 08, 2017
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Education
2013 University of California, Berkeley Postdoc- Anti-viral/anti-cancer Drug delivery
2008 University of Maryland, Baltimore , PhD , Organic Chemistry

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Entrepreneur

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-Innovating/developing technologies to prevent Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) and actively involved in improving healthcare delivery across the world.

-Actively involved in entrepreneurship efforts targeting advance degree holders (PhDs, Postdocs) at the University of California, Berkeley. A major thrust for the past few years has been to help advanced degree holders in academia with valuable ideas evaluate & translate them to startups where possible.

-Currently working on a couple of startups. My expertise includes technology evaluation, intellectual property, market analysis, product development and marketing.

- Failed and definitely learnt a lot about teams, marketing and importance of customer involvement in the product development phase, while working with a few other startups!

While formally trained as an organic chemist and a virologist, my scientific focus was on developing small molecules as drugs targeting viruses and more recently on developing delivery agents for RNAi.